Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Samuel Smiles

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

Samuel Richardson

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Salvador Dali

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Walt Whitman

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Lauren Conrad

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

David A. Siegel

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

Samir Acharya

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

Dolly Parton

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Willa Cather

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.